In re Garbriella H. CA2/7

INTRODUCTION

Chastity B. appeals from juvenile court orders denying two petitions filed under Welfare and Institutions Code section 3881 by Chastity’s mother, Marlene B., requesting a relative placement assessment under section 361.3 and placement of three of Chastity’s four children with Marlene. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and the court determined it was not appropriate to place the children with Marlene, in part because the juvenile court had previously sustained a section 300 petition alleging Marlene sexually abused Chastity’s oldest child. We conclude that the juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in denying Marlene’s section 388 petitions and that any error the juvenile court may have committed in not requiring the Department to prepare a formal assessment under section 361.3 or in applying section 388 to Marlene’s request for placement was harmless. Chastity and Ramon T., the father of one of Chastity’s children, also appeal from the juvenile court’s disposition order

Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 concerning Chastity’s youngest child and argue the Department did not comply…